Population overload? Engineering Solutions
Can the worlds booming population challenges be met by engineering solutions? The Institution of Mechanical Engineers in the UK thinks so. BBC environment analyst Roger Harrabin looks at this report...
View ArticleHans Rosling's Magic Washing Machine. Machines of progress, resource use and...
What was the greatest invention of the industrial revolution? Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine. In under 10 minutes Hans Rosling does us the service of providing a solution to the...
View ArticleExample Initiative - The Grameen Bank
The Bangladeshi-based Grameen Bank (www.grameen.com) is a microfinance and community development organisation (formally established as a bank in 1983) set up to target the rural poor – it was founded...
View ArticleExample initiative - The Converging World
The Converging World (TCW) is a UK based charity set up in 2007 by John Pontin & Ian Roderick which seeks donations from communities and individuals in the developed world to invest in verified...
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Example Initiative - Fownhope CRAG
Fownhope CRAG is a small, voluntary, grassroots carbon rationing action group set up in 2007 in the village of Fownhope in Southwest England, UK, with the primary goal of reducing the annual carbon...
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A Safe and Just Space for Humanity - Oxfam 2012
"Humanity’s challenge in the 21st century is to eradicate poverty and achieve a prosperity for all within the means of the planet’s limited natural resources". This paper from Oxfam - A Safe and Just...
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Great Images for Convergence / Sustainability
A resource bringing together the great images of sustainability that can help us to understand the concepts and themes of Convergence:Donut Economicsread more
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